“Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.” IfsWritingForceDifferencesActingPersonalityPagesGood Acting Author:Larry Hagman
“A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.” BookDifferentCharacterActionFilmReadingIndividualActingDependsReaderPagesStructureDialogueProseInternalsGlimpseScreenplaysPacingDifferent Experiences Author:Nicholas Sparks
“The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.” BigsDifferencesActingTelevisionReadySixPagesSeriesSevenEightHanging OutPace Author:Joe Mantegna
“I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.” KnowsWayHumansReasonCharacterActingHuman NaturePagesCuriousReason Why Author:Rebecca Hall
“The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like that. You and you partner have to do everything and that's kind of like facing the blank page as a writer.” WritingKindCharacterActorsActingClassTeachScenePagesTrainingPartnersBackgroundsProducersStakesBlankActing ClassesBlank PagesDecorators Author:Carol Higgins Clark
“I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with these amazing people all the time, and writing represented a new way to meet those people and to tell stories, at the same time, which I've always wanted to do, and to tell jokes. I love comedy, so writing was a way of getting these jokes that I had down on the page.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingStoriesWantedActingComedyPagesJokesNew WaysAmazing People Author:Josh Lawson
“Theratre is not like like in film and TV, where you have to stop and go back and keep redoing the same three pages for two hours. You get to go through the whole 80 pages of the script, which is incredible. You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.” TwoWholeMomentsFeelingsFilmThreeHoursActingTvsScenePagesIncrediblesScriptsPsych Author:Taissa Farmiga
“Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that the work is true to what is there on the page. It's not trying to present itself with some sort of flashy, concept-based thing. It's about the work, and it's about the acting you're about to watch. So acting-based theater feels like it was born there to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsTryingBornActingWatchesNew YorkPagesConceptsTheaterChicagoFlashy Author:Terry Kinney
“So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.” TermInterestingActingTalkingPagesEthicsCamerasI've LearnedWork EthicInteresting ThingsMonologues Author:Emma Stone
“And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.” ActingTenPagesSmileEnigmatic Author:Connie Brockway